Analysis of Patriot



Another story shall I tell
About how a kingdom fell
About how its countless wonders
Its magic woods, its stone-built founders

Were all brought to the ground and ruined
The people fled. The hunt resumed
One boy was fighting after all
His chin up high as he would fall

His mind was leveled up with the sun
He was too bright to turn and run
So he stood up and he fought back
His sword tore down the men in black

For all his family and friends
For all the balls he never danced
For ones he knew, for his old master
Whose way with him was a disaster

For creepy priests and for the castle
He didn't need big size or muscle
He didn't need a horse to trot
That's what you call a patriot

He gave his friends who fled a hope
He handed them a glowing rope
So they could cross the dark of river
And he was now for them a hero

But he was wounded, and he crawled
To ones he saved, to ones he loved
And he began to close his eyes
But, hey! A hero never dies


Scheme AABB XXCC DDEE XXFF GGXX HHFX XXII
Poetic Form Quatrain  (29%)
Metre 01010111 0110101 01111010 110111110 011101010 01010101 11110101 11111111 111101101 11111101 11110111 11110101 11110001 11011101 111111110 111110010 110101010 110111110 11010111 11110100 11111101 11010101 111101110 011111010 11110011 11111111 01011111 11010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 948
Words 200
Sentences 3
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 28

About this poem

What do you call a patriot?

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Written on August 10, 2022

Submitted by on August 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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